2. “The current model …is inequitable…Two primary schools can have the same number of class teachers….one (with) high concentrations of students with low attainment while the other might only have a small number. Yet both schools receive the same amount of learning support”. ( Delivery for students with special educational needs. NCSE. p 17)

3. For every 200 pupils, there will be HALF a teaching post as a baseline allocation for the provision of inclusion and early intervention strategies. So how will the allocation work for us?

4. That is.5 of a teacher to facilitate all in-class support, literacy and numeracy interventions, Aistear, station teaching, team teaching, as well as inclusion issues.

5. Or.. one teacher for every 400 pupils Help!

6. Further allocation of support will depend on our standardised test results. Results below the 16 th percentile will be noted.  In some schools, few of the pupils currently receiving support are below that level but are nonetheless well below the level of the class, are having difficulties and need support.  Pupils may need support for non academic areas but without low scores may not be able to get it.

7. The other evidence to be used as a means of support allocation is the social context of the school: location gender disadvantaged status

8. Your text here We are doing well because we have enough support for now. But what happens if we lose more than half of our support teachers?

9. More equitable now? What about us?

10. In recent years, we have put in place many new strategies to help all our pupils to get on the road to success, socially, emotionally, physically as well as academically. Interventions such as literacy/numeracy hour, station teaching and team teaching would not be possible with the proposed model. The individual assessments and profiling that we are currently doing would have to be severely curtailed.

11. Support for pupils with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, speech and language impairment, high functioning autism, behavioural problems, and social needs would be effectively reduced to meaningless levels. Support could only guaranteed to the pupils with the most extreme or complex needs.

12. Can we let this happen?